Business Product Owner Lead, PET Insurance - REMOTE

Are you passionate about being part of a team at a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales that delivers extraordinary care to help individuals and businesses prepare for and protect their future? If so, then Nationwide Financial could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers and partners are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

• Role: Consultant, Business Delivery
• Primary Assignment: Product Owner – Data & Analytics (Pet)
• Compensation Range: G3

As a Business Delivery Consultant , you will play a versatile and vital role in bridging business needs and IT solutions. Your primary responsibility will be to serve as the Product Owner for the Data & Analytics scrum team supporting the Pet line , where you will be accountable for maximizing the value delivered through analytics, reporting, and data‑driven capabilities.

In this role, you will focus on understanding business processes, performance drivers, and strategic objectives , eliciting and refining business requirements, and translating them into clear, actionable product backlog items for development teams. You will act as a key liaison between business stakeholders and technology partners, ensuring that delivered solutions meet business objectives while adhering to quality standards, delivery timelines, and enterprise data practices.

Primary Responsibilities – Product Ownership

• •Serve as Product Owner for the Data & Analytics scrum team, owning the product vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog for Pet analytics capabilities.
• •Partner with business leaders and stakeholders to define business outcomes, success measures, and value priorities for analytics initiatives.
• •Elicit, document, and refine requirements in the form of epics, features, and user stories , with clear acceptance criteria.
• •Continuously prioritize backlog items based on business value, risk, dependencies, and capacity , balancing near‑term needs with longer‑term strategic objectives.
• •Actively participate in agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• •Collaborate closely with data engineers, analysts, architects, and delivery partners to clarify intent, resolve trade‑offs, and support efficient delivery .
• •Ensure solutions meet business requirements, usability expectations, and applicable data quality and governance standards .
• •Support stakeholder communication, alignment, and change readiness related to analytics delivery.

Additional Focus Areas (As Demand and Priorities Arise)

As business demand evolves, Business Delivery Consultants are expected to flex across any combination of the following focus areas , in addition to Product Ownership:

Business Analysis

• •Analyze current and future‑state business processes, data needs, and decision workflows.
• •Translate complex business problems into actionable requirements and insights.

Business Project Management

• •Support planning, coordination, and execution of business‑led initiatives, including scope, timelines, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
• •Provide status updates and stakeholder communication as needed.

UAT Planning and Execution

• •Develop UAT strategies, test scenarios, and acceptance criteria for analytics solutions.
• •Coordinate business UAT execution, defect management, and readiness for production release.
• •Support business sign‑off prior to deployment.

Business Process & Performance Analysis

• •Partner with stakeholders to define KPIs, dashboards, and reporting requirements.
• •Use data and analytics outputs to identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities.
• •Support continuous improvement and benefits realization efforts.

Preferred Qualifications / Experience

• •Demonstrated knowledge and experience delivering data and analytics solutions , including reporting, dashboards, insights, or data‑driven capabilities that support business decision‑making.
• •Demonstrated experience and working knowledge of data governance concepts , including data quality, controls, standards, and business ownership of data assets.
• •Familiarity with data integration patterns and ETL processes , with the ability to translate business needs into analytics‑ready data solutions.
• •Experience supporting or working with EDI and API‑based file transfer and integration solutions .
• •Working knowledge of data lake and data warehouse architectures , reporting platforms, and analytics ecosystems.
• •Strong understanding of agile and product‑centric delivery practices , with experience working on or with scrum teams.
• •Ability to effectively partner across business and technology teams, influencing outcomes without direct authority.
• •Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical concepts and business priorities.

This role does not qualify for employer sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT extension program.

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Job Description Summary

We are a versatile group of individuals, working together to meet the needs of our customers. We value knowledge, strong business savvy and contributing to a stellar team dynamic. If you thrive in a busy, engaging work environment, we want to know more about you!

As a Consultant, you'll act independently or as a member of a team responsible for establishing a common understanding of the business environment in which a project must be defined, designed, created, deployed, used and supported. You will participate in major process modeling, analysis and design efforts providing business performance management, organizational design and business risk management capabilities to formulate pragmatic, forward facing and impactful business transformation plans.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Partners with senior leaders to transform their businesses through the strategic application of people, processes and technology. Participates in the planning process by identifying complexities, dependencies and duplications.

Demonstrates expertise in leading business process analysis/design, organizational analysis, needs assessments and cost/benefit analysis to align solutions with business strategies and direction. Consults with functional groups within Nationwide Technology and internal business clients to develop short- and long-term business transformation plans.

Serves as process management contributor and consultant between business customers and systems area for development and implementation of business processes and procedures. Responsible for communicating to customers, management and external sources.

Identifies critical elements of a business process that need to be managed. Defines criteria of performance success. Reports performance in a cohesive manner.

As a team member, participates in analysis and design of organizational structures, roles, responsibilities, governance, staffing and sourcing to support business goals, strategies and process architecture. Provides significant contribution in executing business unit level change.

Conducts and leads training of customers on business, technological, societal and environmental trends to support strategies for improving business performance.

Facilitates evaluation and research of new and existing products, procedures and/or workflow needs associated with business systems for the company. Evaluates new technological developments and evolving business requirements, and recommends appropriate systems alternatives and/or enhancements.

Develops compelling business cases, including gaining senior management input, to accomplish business objectives. Identifies, assesses and mitigates business risks associated with current operating model and/or desired target state operating models.

May provide direction, training and guidance for less experienced staff. May assign r